Robert Kiley, our Head of Digital Services, says: "We hope that the ability of our researchers to now cite preprints will empower them to make use of this technology as a way to communicate their research findings more quickly, and accelerate the discovery of new knowledge."

Wellcome is working with other research funders to look into the value and feasibility of a central service for preprints. Such a service would bring together content from multiple preprint servers (eg BioRxiv, Peer J Preprints and SocArXiv) giving researchers and machines new ways to search, access and reuse it.

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